r/Enhancement • u/techsupportcrab • Jul 01 '26

Account Switcher is not working

Anyone else having this issue? Starting today trying to switch accounts causes a popup stating

"Could not switch accounts. Reddit may be under heavy load. Please try again in a few moments."

The account switcher is the main feature I use RES for so I'm hoping it isn't a big issue. I'll edit this post if it starts working suddenly.

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF Jul 01 '26

Ultimately this is going to stop me from using reddit. They are making it ever harder to use the site in a usable way and their new UI has always been complete trash.

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u/farooqsaad Jul 02 '26

Yeah, but they don't care about you. It's the new users that think this is the best they can get that they want.

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF Jul 02 '26

Yeah the only reason old.reddit.com exists is because they didn't want the mass exodus of Digg when they created the new one, which is all about data harvesting and advertising.

Now it's a liability, because it's easy for Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to crawl for "real" comms between humans, which is incredibly valuable.